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RTL Rendering support for Windows Phone 7

Right to Left languages RENDERING is not natively supported in Windows Phone 7 at the time of this writing (May 15, 2011). The text (and I am talking about Arabic and Urdu here specifically) appears broken in reverse order (since RtoL support is not avaialble) as shown below,

Reversed-arabic
The mango release is coming next however as per the following thread (Ref 1), it is not known if the Arabic support will be avaialble or not,

Currently for proper rendering of Arabic (Persian and Urdu too) the only available solution is discussed by this Microsoft guy, Daniel.

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/RTL-Arabic-And-Hebrew-Support-For-Windows-Phon...

The solution presented by Daniel relies on a library that does the trick of reversing the Arabic string and developed by and another Microsoft fellow Bashar,

http://arabic4wp7.codeplex.com/

Thanks both!

 

Ref 1: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-wptips/windows-phone-7-...

 

Filed under: Arabic Right to Left Windows language persian urdu windows phone 7
 

Install Windows XP without a CD Key

There are times when I am stuck at midnight during an undue installation of Windows and no CD key available. Now here is a workaround for you if you have forgotten the CD key somehow in just four simple steps,

Step 1: Copy Windows XP CD to your hard drive
Step 2: Change the permissions of the file setup.ini found under (I386 folder) to make write-able (Uncheck Read Only).
Step 3: Now open the setup.ini file and change the last three characters of CD key [796674736977656D7A622E3xxx] replacing xxx with 270 . Save it.
Step 4: Now burn a new CD and install. You won’t be promoted to enter a CD key.

Enjoy as long as it works. Simple isn’t it?

Filed under: Windows XP
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